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After months upon months of reflection and careful revision, I have decided to submit a new draft of my ‘A World Without Martel’ timeline. In this re-submission I made changes to the original, re-written posts that were admittedly shoddy and incorporate ideas I received in feedback to the original ‘A World Without Martel’. This new timeline –which I have ingeniously named -‘A World Without Martel’ 2.0 will include over 40 posts (excluding maps). But before I begin posting, I would like to thank Basileus Giorgios (Dominator of Romans), Valdemar II (Graf zu Rantzau), Geekhis Khan (A Poor Little Lost Lamb...), Iñaki (Gudari of the alternate worlds) and others for their feedback during ‘A World Without Martel’ 1.0. Remember all comments welcome.

“A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Muhammed.”

-Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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